“Crash, Crash, Crash!” Benjamin Franklin Stein was stomping his foot in front of Nickola Tesla. “I don’t care about your junk of a car!” Ten year old Benjamin, the bully in Mrs.Bibimbob’s class at Tofu school yelled at Nickola Tesla. He has brown hair, steps on peoples’ lunches for fun, and likes to frame well-behaved kids. Yesterday, he stole the principal’s purse and put it in goody goody Madison’s desk. Madison went to 5 days of detention and was suspended for 5 days. Plus, the day before that, he screamed in Mrs. Teriyaki (the principal)’s ear. She is old and can’t hear or see very well. So, she gave Benjamin a red piece of paper, and told him to put it in his desk. This is her system. She later comes around the classrooms, and looks in everybody’s desk for the red paper. You can’t throw it away because Mrs. Teriyaki dumps the content of the trash can and the recycling bin, on the floor and sifts through them like a dog digging a hole and he throws trash at the students. Shirley got a used tissue paper thrown at her. A banana peel landed on Jason. Then, Benjamin snuck the red paper into Sherman Herman’s desk. Benjamin forgot if it was Sherman or Herman. He didn’t care. Ms. Teriyaki came to Herman-Sherman’s desk. “How about you?” she thundered. She lifted his desk, saw the red paper and dragged him away. Ten minutes later, there was a scream. Every time, there was a scream (it sounded the same, too). “Well, sorry but I didn’t come here to help you (Nickola Tesla had been asking Benjamin to draw a car from the future.).” “But, but,” Nickola Tesla said. “Fine, I’ll draw a picture.” Benjamin 1 Benjamin drew a picture. “I guess I traveled back in time for some reason,” he thought after he handed Nickola the picture of the car. Nickola walked away grinning, Benjamin kept walking. “Some people just can’t frown,” he thought. -F~l~a~s~h~b~a~c~k- On the inside, Benjamin is just a nice fluffy kid. He has a younger sister, named Rianna Lexie Stine. Lexie and Benjamin live by themselves in a barn mansion. There is a mansion and a barn with a chicken coop. Their parents bought the mansion before they moved away. They visited back for one hour a month. To Ben, Lexie is all he has. Benjamin used to be a nice kid until his friends dared him stomp on someone’s lunch. He did and that night, purple freckles appeared on Lexie’s face. Benjamin just became colder and meaner and so, more and more freckles appeared because of his bullying. One day, Benjamin read a magazine, and there was an article saying that parsley and lemons can cure freckles. He went to his wonderful garden, full of juicy oranges, blue berries, raspberries, strawberries, peaches, peas, mangos, cherries, apples, grapes, water melons, lemons, pumpkins, black berries, and bananas. The garden also had crunching lettuce, cucumbers, squashes, bell peppers, broccolis, spinaches, carrots, celeries, and melons. He had a few spices like pepper, basil, parsley, rosemary, and sage. Benjamin saw some litter while he was walking. He picked it up and it crumpled to dust. He felt himself falling through a hole and screamed. He landed in Nickola Tesla’s workshop. That’s 2 Benjamin where he met Tesla. By choosing to work with Tesla instead of yelling at him, Benjamin saw that it wasn’t bad to be nice to people, not only to his sister. He tripped on a rock and fell through a hole (again!) and landed outside of a huge cabin. Benjamin looked at the door knocker. It was a dog with its mouth wide open. When he knocked on it, the door opened and a dog stepped out. “Hi! Come in,” the dog said. Benjamin was stunned but he stepped in. There were more dogs all over the place. There also were huge bean bags, blankets, pillows, and boxes. Benjamin sat down at a table and the dog sat next to him. A dog read a new paper and read the headline out loud: Framing Occurs. Benjamin started laughing but stopped when he realized everyone (the dogs) was staring at him. “Dude, that’s not funny,” said one of the dogs. “Sorry,” said Benjamin. They all said that they wished the police got the culprit. The dogs were nice to him. Benjamin went on his way after waving a goodbye to the dogs. He learned that framing isn’t OK. He tripped into a lake, and the water disappeared. He went down in another hole, thinking ‘why are so many holes here?’ He was not surprised this time. He ended up in a leprechauns’ house. The entire house was green. One of them sat him down at a table, and he served him a drink. “Thanks!” said Benjamin. They gave him some food. It smelled so delicious, and made him realize he hasn’t eaten for a while. One of the leprechauns tricked him and took the food away when he looked the other way. Benjamin said, “Where did my food go?” Benjamin was really hungry and mad. Just when he thought he would starve to death, the leprechaun gave him the food back. “Now, you know what it feels like when your food was taken, don’t you!” “How did you know what I did?” he asked. “Fortune teller leprechaun,” the leprechaun replied. 3 Benjamin The leprechaun gave him a pack full of good food and he left. He met Jack Frost who was about to zap the world with a laser beam. “Hey, stop that!” yelled Benjamin. “What if someone just come over and zap you? You wouldn’t like that, would you?” said Benjamin. “No,” said Jack Frost. “So, don’t do it to other people!” said Benjamin. “Sorry,” said Jack. “You don’t have to be. Just be nice,” smiled Ben. “Okay, thanks,” said Jack. He waved and skipped off, into the horizon. “Ben! Ben!” Ben woke up to Lexie’s calling, “Ben! My freckles went away!” Benjamin hugged her and they got ready and went to school. TEN DAYS LATER... Ben is now friends with everyone at school. He is the most well-behaved student in class. His best friend’s name is Herman. Ben learned his name (not Herman-Sherman or Sherman- Herman). One time, Herman told Ben that the scream is a tape recording and Ms. Teriyaki is actually nice. “She even gave me a lollypop!” said Herman. The End 4 Benjamin